How To Use Broken-down In A Sentence

Outside armies have toppled Afghanistan's government and installed a new one, but it controls only its broken-down capital and very little of the vast country beyond.
I followed her to a broken-down shed with a rotting rowing boat outside. MAN AND WIFE
Despite this, none of the newer buses has been assigned to the route, so Victoria buses, slow and lumbering old cows, are often broken-down, causing even more frequent delays.
A Stanway traffic police spokesman said: ‘The traffic congestion had been due to broken-down vehicles.’
Unlike an out-of-service subway car, a broken-down section of sidewalk could not simply be shunted aside.

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We could tell from the smell and the noises that our bus was making that it wasn't going to get very far, and it wasn't long before we were all standing on the hard shoulder of the motorway next to a broken-down bus.
Rather than aggrandizing its subject, this film is all about contextualizing a man hounded by comics fans and ‘broken-down hippie pest guys.’
And just as the miner makes the broken-down gold-bearing stuff run through his constructed sluices, Nature sends all her gold in a torrent into the natural sluice which is known as the Fraser Canyon. A Tramp's Notebook
A short time later Ripley was seen to get into his pick-up truck bearing a distinctive Native American Indian emblem and used for transporting broken-down coaches.
Gollum is a murderer and liar, but he is also a broken-down, pathetic creature, whose torture at the hands of Sauron's minions atoned for many sins.
Even a broken-down dirt digger, bright yellow like a daffodil, was fun to watch as the muddy construction workers tried to get it back into working order.
Why is it aliens only abduct backwoods yahoos who have jobs like cutting down trees and live in broken-down trailer parks?
Channel Tunnel link closed after Eurostar trains break down THE Channel Tunnel link between Britain and mainland Europe, colloquially known as the Chunnel, was suspended today due to three broken-down Eurostar trains blocking both lines. The Australian | News |
How come a white boy like you is drivin 'a old, broken-down, jiveass bruthuh's heap like this? Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
He told his driver to stop outside a broken-down shack, where an emaciated woman and two young men sat on a porch surrounded by household debris.
I had not to trudge these dusty roads on foot with a broken-down good-for-nothing scatterling; I trod rich carpets, and slept under silken curtains. What Will He Do with It? — Complete
As the teenagers tentatively waded into the brown muck, a skinny, worn-out alcoholic teetered over from his broken-down pickup.
We witness the love of a trainer for his boss's wife, of a billionaire for the tantrically adept psychic, of a trainer for a broken-down stallion, of a corrupt owner for money, fame and Jesus.
There is no heaven or afterlife for broken-down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark. Stephen Hawking
He expected that the two could discuss rationally my quitting high school to move into a broken-down apartment building with a male of dubious prospects.
Bay got down on her knees, felt beneath a broken-down series of berths. FLOATING CITY
Boxing’s two most gifted and stylish performers, in their prime the antithesis of the brute fighter, ended up indistinguishable from the broken-down old pugs they were sure they’d never become.
The team converted the town's clinic into a 24-bed hospital, the only such facility in Kholm, and turned a broken-down hotel into a health clinic.
The yards are full of derelict cars, broken-down furniture, sofas with the stuffing bursting out.
The incident occurred on the A12 in Essex, and involved a driver hitting a broken-down vehicle stopped at the side of the road.
And very many of the Egyptian books are written in this kind of broken-down hieroglyphic, which is called "hieratic," or priestly writing. Peeps at Many Lands: Ancient Egypt
A broken-down lorry also led to lengthy delays on Friday.
Because, though old and broken-down as he is, he would put to sea on a hurdle to gain an obolus. Peace
Cllr White called on the local authority to install CCTV cameras at the site, reinstate the area, repair broken-down signs and resurface the roadway in a very public demonstration that they do care about the area.
To soldiers, every broken-down car is a potential bomb; every tumbleweed may disguise an artillery shell set to explode.
He says: "There is no heaven or afterlife for broken-down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark. Stephen Hawking: Heaven Is A Myth
Costner, with his easy grin, incipient beer belly, thinning hair and bright devilish eyes, plays broken-down convincingly.
Hyde had left the small launch he had hired from a broken-down marina on the Sacramento River Arm in a tiny inlet. THE LAST RAVEN
City of York Council said that broken-down fans in the roof had now been fixed, restoring proper ventilation to the baths.
The remainder of the Hawk order was sent in broken-down sub-assemblies and these were put together by the French.
The yards are full of derelict cars, broken-down furniture, sofas with the stuffing bursting out.
a broken-down fence
“A jitney we were on last night, a real broken-down old flivver.” DIAMOND RUBY
Open ditches line the streets of the neighborhood and run past overgrown lots and broken-down houses as well as freshly whitewashed cottages and one or two brand new trailers.
The trial judge held that it was unreasonable to keep a guard dog to protect a load of old broken-down scrap motor cars.
The husband comes home surprised to see the car, broken-down in the yard.
The broken-down old house was not fit for human habitation.
The publisher knew his public, so he gave a pound of book for every fifty cents, and crowded in plenty of wood-cuts and stamped the outside with golden bouquets and put in a steel engraving of the author, with a tissue paper veil over it, and "sicked" his multitude of broken-down clergymen, maiden ladies, grass widows, and college students on to the great American public. Mark Twain and the Old Time Subscription Book
That was the total fulfillment of the dream of the little fat girl from Utah, who had sat with her dad on a broken-down couch, basking in the silvery glow of the television in an otherwise empty living room, on that weird little street in that most enchanted of cities—the city where I lived under at least two or three spells before I even got to la-la land. Roseanne Archy
What we call pus is made up of the bodies of live and dead phagocytes, disease taints and germs, blood serum, broken-down tissues and cells, in short, the debris of the battlefield. Nature Cure
Perhaps," Marco had heard Loristan say to him almost severely, once when he had forgotten himself and had stood at salute while his master passed through a broken-down iron gate before an equally broken-down-looking lodging-house -- "perhaps you can force yourself to remember when I tell you that it is not safe -- _it is not safe_! The Lost Prince
He said the side of the stadium which had a broken-down security boundary wall had been replaced and that other areas needing attention would also be sorted out.
When the phenomena are marked it is termed sthenic; when less distinct, as the result of a broken-down and feeble constitution in the animal, it is called asthenic. Special Report on Diseases of the Horse
The only piece of property left when this process had been gone through was a little broken-down farmhouse called Venstöb, in the outskirts of Skien. Henrik Ibsen
It took him and other members of the band just a month to convert the broken-down, dirty, desolate looking room over a tailor's shop in Deansgate into a smart, colourful, ballroom.
It had a peculiar gait, being likened by a nineteenth-century naturalist to ‘a broken-down hack in a canter, apparently dragging the hindquarters after it.’
An old, broken-down car — a 50s model Studebaker painted in day-glo swirls — sits rusting in our doorless detached garage. John Lennon Slept Here (Or Was It Ringo?)
Encountering numerous problems along the way, Mr Nichols O'Keefe was at one point forced to stay behind in Rome to fix a broken-down bus, having to fly on later to Damascus.
The two main problems were supply of fuel and the repair of broken-down vehicles.
Her job has often seen her in the very unglamorous position of driving to the location of a broken-down vehicle and being there in the middle of the night dealing with the problem.
Assuming the situation isn’t immediately fraught with danger that is, your broken-down vehicle is visible to other cars that may be coming from either direction of the track, you’ve probably got time to mull over your options with a nice hot cup of tea. Surviving Australia
Apparently they stay at an old broken-down house near the closed factory.
had to push the broken-down car
And by the time we came back level with London Bridge station they had towed the broken-down bus out of the way and all the traffic chaos was gone (and our diversion had taken us about half an hour).
In a country with almost no vehicles on its roads, one of the commonest sights is a group of soldiers from the Korean People's Army, peering mournfully into the innards of a broken-down transport.
The yards are full of derelict cars, broken-down furniture, sofas with the stuffing bursting out.
In my broken-down and shattered state I had a flash of certainty. BLOOD IS DIRT
She was standing at an angle in the steps by a broken-down old shed. THE DEVIL'S OWN WORK
We drove north, broken-down trucks littering the road as we travelled up to the summit of the pass through the mountain.
The 31-year-old builder who transforms broken-down shells into real homes takes a refreshingly unpretentious attitude to interior design simply by denying any knowledge of its principles.
The gamin creates their ideal in spirit when she takes the most broken-down shack and tries to make it ‘home.’
The omnifarious assembly included pale, prim-whiskered young clerks; shabby, lonely, sallow young women, whose sallowness and shabbiness stamped them with the mark of integrity; other females whose specious splendor was not nearly so reassuring; old men, broken-down men, middle-aged men of every description, except the well-to-do. Short Story Classics (American) Vol. 2
Left field may be the classic place to stash old, broken-down infielders, but some combination of arm strength and speed are still considered essential to the position. In the Time of Bobby Cox
But road safety campaigners and motoring groups expressed concern about the impact on safety, including whether it could become harder to remove broken-down vehicles from lanes.
The gamin creates their ideal in spirit when she takes the most broken-down shack and tries to make it ‘home.’
a broken-down tractor fit only for children to play on
He assured me that as a woman on a broken-down bike on the edge of a major A-road, in the middle of nowhere, I'd be a priority.
The two sisters continue their conversation about why Stella lives in this broken-down old place, how Blanche looks, and why she has arrived in New Orleans.
Also watched ‘The Smallest Show on Earth,’ a gentle (read: dull) little English comedy about a young couple that inherits a broken-down movie theater.
Costner, with his easy grin, incipient beer belly, thinning hair and bright devilish eyes, plays broken-down convincingly.
We drove north, broken-down trucks littering the road as we travelled up to the summit of the pass through the mountain.
I have no romantic things to tell, for poor Mrs. Kennedy was a shiftless, broken-down woman, who could only 'sozzle round,' as Mrs. Grover said, and rub along with help from any one who would lend a hand. A Garland for Girls
Holidaymakers had a miracle escape when their coach stayed upright after colliding with a broken-down lorry and plunging into a field near York yesterday.
With these memories, I expected Galway City, my destination, to be a hopeless, broken-down kind of place.
Bloomberg News The Clam Bar For my daily uniform I like to keep it very casual and comfortable, with a broken-down pair of jeans and Nikes. 20 Odd Questions: Director Ed Burns
‘Obviously we are working to repair the fault,’ says the conductor on the broken-down train when the one thing that is blatantly obvious is that no one is doing a blind thing about it.
Not a bad premise: broken-down school bus, excitable teens, violent farmer, flesh-eating monster.
An Orkney Towage tug carried out a long-distance tow this week, towing a broken-down Dutch coaster to Invergordon.
The only large building is the Jami or Cathedral, a long barn of poverty-stricken appearance, with broken-down gates, and two white-washed minarets of truncated conoid shape. First footsteps in East Africa
Max is a white kid who lives with his grandmother in the village bordering the pulp mill where he meets Swing, a girl from the gypsy caravan on the opposite side of the mill who trades Max a broken-down guitar for his discman.
“A jitney we were on last night, a real broken-down old flivver.” DIAMOND RUBY
Slowly, she and Zoe walked over to the broken-down chain-link fence. Choker
Sitting on a broken-down couch in the cluttered Casa Maria headquarters, Flagg chuckles at that particular take.
Sitting on a broken-down couch in the cluttered Casa Maria headquarters, Flagg chuckles at that particular take.
With his broken-down truck and borrowed electricity, Carvel was the prototypical sole proprietor.
He told his driver to stop outside a broken-down shack, where an emaciated woman and two young men sat on a porch surrounded by household debris.
Lacking an infrastructure to support his ambitions, though, Heinrich ended his days teaching girls for pennies on a broken-down piano in a garret, and hoping for posthumous understanding.
It's melting already, but the traffic's at a crawl and there's a broken-down bus around the corner.
Lucy Renwick, from Crisicard, said: ‘A crisis means different things to different people from finding a wasps nest in the attic to getting locked out of the house or being miles away from home in a broken-down vehicle.’
We opened for business, with Susie dressed like a dog's dinner queening it in the hall, her cashier in an office to one side, and a broken-down medico in a little room on the other - "for the only thing they're goin 'to leave here is cash," says she, "an 'if they don't like bein' looked at by the pox-spotter, they can take themselves off, double-quick. Isabelle
The broken-down, slimy, clammy and cold basement was my refuge from them.
The broken-down scraps of the red blood-cells, together with the toxins of the parasite, are carried to the liver and spleen to be burned up or purified in such quantities that both become congested and diseased, causing the familiar "biliousness," so characteristic of malaria. Preventable Diseases
Benji can look like a broken-down old cab horse with a real novice on his back or he can look really smart.
There is no heaven or afterlife for broken-down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark. Stephen Hawking
Pieces of wood, iron, old clothes and broken-down appliances litter the ground, which was soaking wet when the Guardian visited Nakit on Thursday.
Anyhow, once they'd got the broken-down train reversed back into the platform, released the trapped passengers and then cleared away some of the crowds, we were on our way and, an hour later, rolling on south towards France.
Journeying forth to the big city in search of help, Flik mistakes the members of a broken-down flea circus for puissant warriors, brings them back home and presents them as the colony's saviors. Oy Story: 'Cars 2' Is a Dollar-Driven Edsel
I had not to trudge these dusty roads on foot with a broken-down good-for - nothing scatterling; I trod rich carpets, and slept under silken curtains. What Will He Do with It? — Volume 03
There is no heaven or afterlife for broken-down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark. Stephen Hawking
I don't want to enter the dark, broken-down rooms because I get this sick feeling in my gut.
Traveling for about six hours, crammed into this small, hot, broken-down vehicle, is almost more than I can stand.
The broken-down old house was not fit for human habitation.
Broken-down trucks were scavenged for usable parts and left by the roadside. Artillery units cannibalised parts from captured guns to keep their howitzers operating.

How To Use Broken-down In A Sentence

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